{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/ezekiel/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-28T23:44:56.917Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Ezekiel","bookSlug":"ezekiel","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":48,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity."}],"citation":{"inline":"Ezekiel 4 (WEB)","markdown":"[Ezekiel 4](https://primebible.com/web/ezekiel/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/ezekiel/4 (accessed 2026-05-28)."}}